re-visiting In-between projects, having just finished when I looked at the sky it was wool, I’ve yet to embark on something new. What a great place to be… like picking out a new pair of shoes. The feedback I’ve received […]
Having collected a fair bit of material for the basis of this project it takes a while to sort out what will finally work in an exhibition space. My thought process around it all is extended with the time it […]
Went to New Art Gallery Walsall a few weeks ago. (I did blog about it) and saw everything, twice, but didn’t watch Zarina Bhimji’s Yellow Patch. I had a bit of a headache and didn’t want to sit in the […]
I am currently in that horrible limbo time, the time when procrastination strikes heavily, between projects – the time when it is so easy to phaff the days away in indecision – what is it exactly that I am going […]
Making the piece ready for viewing by half a million visitors will mean that much of my work between now & Easter will be in readiness for the Buckfast Abbey showing. So, another tranquil day working outside again, & probably […]
The set up of the group show is shown in these photographs taken over the last two days. In the show is the recently completed paintings of records and the work for Charles Dickens Bicentenary. + Over the last few […]
Group Show: Artists in Residence 2012 Kathryn Maple Ian Robinson John Nicol Wednesday 22nd February – Sunday 11th March 2012 Gallery opening times: Thursday – Sunday, 12pm-6pm and by appointmentEntry Free
I thought about everyone’s individual practice and in doing so I recalled their past and present works. I noticed a subconscious development of similar thought processes amongst members of the group, through social interaction, presentation and visual stimuli, an inexplicable […]
There are many things in my head right now. Topsy Turvy exhibition on Wednesday, curating BH13 Urban Sculpture Garden, schools workshops, the mystery of Cafe Obscura, peer critiques and of course the thing that should be at the center of […]
The Brook of Plenty The snow has been and gone and when it had gone I looked in the Brook of Plenty. There was not much water in there, it comes out from the near by woodland, across the fields, […]
Thank you Glenda for your comment. I will get some images up but you can also go to the link below to see images but I will go out to mske a photograph just for you http://www.art2b.co.uk/French%20Retreat/album/index.html
Since starting the new semester I have not had as much studio time as I would have hoped. One week was taken up with setting up an exhibition I was showing my pieces in, and during the other couple I […]
Some of the most exciting installations these days come out of South America. Having just returned form Aruba, off the Venezuelan coast, I was impressed by this huge float, winner of their 2011 Carnival. The theme for the carnival was […]
Today I am exhausted. My son finally recovered from chickenpox, only to develop conjunctivitis and to top it off last week was half term. I had to go to work through all this as well, and with a horrible nasty […]
The last couple of weeks have seen things move along steadily. My research has taken me in to some strange places recently, interestingly to the meaning of the tower in tarot cards. It’s meanings seemed to strike a chord with […]
It’s a bit like speed dating….. a quote from Debra Eck, one of our SCIBASE artists. That was a good analogy of SUPERMARKET. You get xx amount of minutes to give as much information as you can to the public […]
As part of my osmosis into the public art scene, and to publicise the work and research I have been doing since the commencement of my MA.
In most galleries and museums that we go to there are maps and arrows to point our way. This makes it easy to predict a person’s path through a gallery space, and indeed when monitored (as seen in the image […]
Paintings, as of mid February.
You shall get used to it whether you like it or not This weekend gone (February 17-19th), Tramway in Glasgow hosted a symposium on emerging artists in Scotland, including commissioned and integrated contributions from Collective Gallery’s New Work Scotland 2011 […]
This is the second of my proposals for the three wishes project: Newer galleries, such as the Tate Modern, were designed with visitor numbers in mind. The layout of the rooms at the Tate mean that visitors are more likely […]
Recommendations to house in garden I wandered in to the botanical gardens the other day and felt strangely west-end-Glasgow-esque, for the ones built on the east of the central belt of Scotland are definitely of the same architectural era, yet […]
Le Corbusier,s build in Briey France…..surrounded by trees….decided to paint an image of it as seen through foliage…the grid od the building against the chaos of leaves….one problem I’ve created for myself to solve….to depict the trees and to locate […]
As promised, a view of the mountains taken today 21 Feb 2012. Not a great picture, just a quick snap.
There isn’t a system. There is an eclectic crash of influences. I find it hard to explain. When I’m there it is clear and I have no time to question it!. When I question it, it feels like when you […]